There are 168 million child
workers around the world and more than half of them are trapped
in the worst forms of child labour. They work in fields, mines
and factories and many are sexually abused, exploited in the
drug trade or forced to join armies and militias.

THIS MONTH'S
ANNIVERSARIES

May 2, 1768:
Birth of Zachary Macaulay (Scottish abolitionist and former Governor of
Sierra Leone)

May
4, 1910:International
Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic 1910